On the Internet, a troll purposely inflames anyone he can to attract attention to himself, in hopes of wasting everyone's time and energy. In the Republican Party, a troll does the same thing and he becomes a hero of the far right and a frontrunner for...

Soulless approximation of a human being Ted Cruz (R-Ted Cruz) showed up for work today at that business he tried to burn to the ground a few weeks ago and his first order of business was to sociopathsplain to Trayvon Martin's mom that her son's murder...

By now it seems pretty clear that Senator Ted Cruz has a plan to occupy the White House. But he doesn't want people to know too much about it. And he definitely doesn't want you to know about the special interests that have already begun to bankroll...

The Obama White House has rightly refused to negotiate with the Cruz-ians, but there's still a strange lack of urgency in some of the administration's public statements, and that lack of urgency is beginning to draw notice.

Yesterday, after ranting for 21 hours on the Senate floor to protest the Affordable Care Act, Ted Cruz ended up voting for cloture. It passed 100-0. On Sunday Ted Cruz boldly proclaimed that "a vote for cloture is a vote for Obamacare."Confused? So are...

During Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)'s epic "faux-libuster" Tuesday night, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) managed to briefly flummox the junior Senator from Texas by asking him about some of the real world consequences faced by people who are denied health care coverage

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) launched an old-fashioned talking filibuster Tuesday afternoon to try to slow debate over a short-term spending measure by speaking against the new federal health-care law "until I am no longer able to stand."